Eve, 1882, by Auguste Rodin. Purchased 1959 with Lindsay Buick Bequest funds.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (1959-0029-1)
Remembering Rodin
Toured by Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand
21 February – 19 April, 2020
‘Remembering Rodin’, showcases New Zealand’s most significant Rodin sculpture, Eve.
Eve was completed by the French Master sculptor in 1882 and 15 bronze copies were cast from it in 1959 (one of which was purchased by the National Museum of New Zealand, now Te Papa).
The bronze is 75cm tall and weighs 22 kg.
The sculpture comes to the gallery from Te Papa Tongarewa’s collection. The exhibition includes a lithographic portrait of Rodin(1914) by his famous contemporary Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and a rare leather-bound edition of Gustav Coquiot’s Rodin (Paris 1915) with 15 hand-tipped photographs.
A short video accompanying the exhibition tells the story of Eve and the process of casting the bronzes.
21 February – 26 April, 2020, Gallery 1
Percy Thomson Director Rhonda Bunyan curated an exhibition featuring Taranaki artists to complement Te Papa Tongarewa’s touring exhibition, Te Whakamahara ki a Rodin, ‘Remembering Rodin’, the star of which is Rodin’s Eve. The exhibition was closed four weeks early due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. All artworks are included in this virtual exhibition. Enjoy.
Cyrus
Pantea Rastegari
Charcoal
$10,000
A Glass Of Tea
Pantea Rastegari
Charcoal
$10,000
Reclining Nude in black ink, 2019, Peter Lambert
Indian ink and acrylic on board $2200
Hermit
Kayla Upton
Bronze on reclaimed rimu
Limited bronze editions of 9
$24,000
Kina
Claire Jensen
Beach clean alkathene pipes and steel
$550 SOLD
Death
Kayla Upton
Bronze on reclaimed rimu
Limited bronze editions of 9
$21,000
Devil
Kayla Upton
Bronze on reclaimed rimu
Limited bronze editions of 9
$23,000
Clay
Jana Branca
Oil on canvas
$2700 SOLD
O.H
Jo Stallard
Oil on canvas
$1950
I Am Becoming, Maree Burnnand
Embroidery $950
Colours Of The Wild
Rhonda Crawford
Acrylic
$4000
In Between It All I Lie Floating, Michaela Stoneman
Monoprint and gold leaf $920
The Threshold Lives Here With Me, Michaela Stoneman
Monoprint and gold leaf $920
P E A
Kris White
Acrylic on canvas
$2500
In Line
Ian Axtel
Acrylic on canvas
$1850
Striding Out, Cherie Dodds
Acrylic SOLD
Catholic Sisters’ Graves
Rhonda Bunyan
Photography
$1100
S-21
Amy Taunt
Photography
$210
Untitled, Antonia O’Mahony
Monoprint, etching, lithography, hand-dyed paper
$900
Old Lion
Donna Willard-Moore
Bronze casting
$4500
Murti
Joshua Sands
Ceramic sculpture
$1700
Standard Candle
David Le Fleming
Oil on car bonnet
$9500
Summer Dahlias, Carina McQueen
Oil on panel $320 SOLD
Morning Light on Dahlias, Carina McQueen
Oil on panel $280
Jagged Edges
Maria Brockhill
Clay, glazes and oxides
$400 SOLD
Memories Of A Happy Child
Renate Verbrugge
Taranaki andesite, Carrara marble, wood, string
$4800
Butterfly Girl
Rachael Davies
Pottery
$650
The Passage Way
Anna Korver
White Italian marble and black granite
$4500
Eve, Stu Morris
Oil on canvas $950
Guardian, Oriah Rapley
Bronze ED.3/9 $2500
Cave Rescue
Jennifer Patterson
Textiles
$300
(Left) Grasses 1, Dianna Fary
Oil on canvas $750
Grasses 2, Dianna Fary
Oil on canvas $750
Bushfires Triptych, Tony Rumball
Oil on stretched canvas $17,000
Embers, Jeanette Verster
Fibre $500 SOLD
Michael Gow Cloud
Michael Smither
Print
$600
First Impression
Steve Molloy
Photography (1 of 9)
$1200
A Cloud To Hold In Your Hand
Michael Smither
Bronze
$3200
Woven Landscape
Howard Tuffery
Stone – Taranaki andesite
$5800
Thinking about Eve
Tribute to Rodin
Rick Wood
Ceramic (set of 2)
$350 each
The Three People
Graham Mulvay
Clay
$350
Global Warming
Graham Mulvay
Clay
$395
21 February – 19 April, 2020
Gallery 2
Bunyan's first major solo contemporary photographic exhibition, at Percy Thomson Gallery, was cut short by the Covid-19 Lockdown.
In this photographic exhibition Bunyan explores the nature of shapes, patterns and shadows in water and sand, to create ghostly black and white images, luminous and dreamlike, akin to what she perceives ‘memory traces’ to be in her own brain.
An engram is a unit of cognitive information inside the brain, theorised to be the means by which memories are stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain in response to external stimuli. The exact mechanism and location of neurologically defined engrams has been a focus of persistent research for many decades.
In this exhibition Bunyan asks the viewer to look deep, to interpret each work from their own memory traces.
